Did you read the Maven newsletter?

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   Kenna McHughposted 4 years ago

   The Maven closed its acquisition of TheStreet, Inc.

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      DrMark1961posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, and?

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      Chuckposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I don't recall seeing their newsletter but I did run across the announcement  about their acquisition of TheStreet, Inc. on one of the financial news sites I was going through.  The acquisition sounded like it made sense for Maven and I didn't see anything to make me feel that the deal would have any negative effects for us on HubPages.

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         Kenna McHughposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Good to hear!

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      OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      If they are doing so great, why is their stock a penny stock (worth less than a dollar per share)?

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 4 years ago

   Can you post a link?

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      Kenna McHughposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Here you go: https://mailchi.mp/e4c4e0949cda/maven-c … -19-346943

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   Rupert Taylorposted 4 years ago

   Yes I saw it and blundered into a heroic dose of management-speak.
   
   "Their addition (of TheStreet) to Maven’s premium media coalition highlights the strategic momentum we're building ..." Can you build strategic momentum? I suppose so, but I wouldn't know how to go about it.
   
   Further on, there's "our portfolio of major media brands and nine-figure user scale." I wonder what kind of scale that might be. Anybody got any idea? Anybody?

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      theraggededgeposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Maven are particularly guilty of nonsense-speak. Sometimes it's impossible to make any sense of it at all. It's them, not you
      
      They need this: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

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   FatFreddysCatposted 4 years ago

   Good for them, I guess. (shrugs)

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   paradigmsearchposted 4 years ago

   This is just speculation, but I do believe Maven does more than sales and marketing of ads. They also host and maintain websites. In other words, they take over the job as webmasters. Maintaining a website is a labor intensive,  expensive, pain in the royal neck. Name brands are more than happy to hand over that whole mess to someone else. Looks like Maven is that someone else who does a good job at a reasonable price.

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      Kenna McHughposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Maven also took over Sports Illustrated's website of late.

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